It was like this
The saying April showers brings May flowers must have an equivalent in December excess brings January depress. I’m not trying to bring you down, but okay if you go there with me. We three women sat around the table wanting more that what we have – more money, more passion, more fun – and yet, what? As broke as we all were, we forged a beautiful meal and ate it together and still felt a lack.
As I threw a piece of challah, some salad, and other tidbits away from our meal, I thought about how there are people in the world who literally could have made a satisfying meal off of what was going into my garbage.
And yet, nothing seems more remote to me than the notion that somewhere someone is starving.
Speaking of lack, let’s talk about love. One wants a boyfriend, one wants her boyfriend to call more often, one wants to know why her boyfriend didn’t just stay a booty call instead of pushing into something more. Through the course of days, I’ve heard one wants her husband to give her more sex, one wants her husband to stay out of town so she can get more sex, one wants her husband to talk to her, one wants her husband to quit being jealous.
Want seems to be a universal affliction, but particularly so in January when it is overcast and cold.
It was like this, I met you in a lighting store, you with the golden eyes. I was not looking for no love affair, but then you took time to seduce me, certainly I was not looking for a man to get under my skin and then turn around and play me, like that.
#IDFWU – FACTS: YOU’RE A BIRDBRAIN.
“Certainly (Flipped It)” Erykah Badu
Uh, Flip with me,
Might be cool.
Who gave u permission to rearrange me
certainly not me
who told you that it was alright to love me
Certainly, certainly not me.
I was not looking for no love affair, baby
and now you wanna fix me
I was not looking for no love affair
and now you want to mold me
Was not looking for no love affair, baby
now you wanna kiss me
Was not looking for no love affair
and now you wanna control me
hold me
I know you’re trying to get creative with my love
and that’s alright, but
you tried to get a little tricky
turned my back
and then you slipped me a mickey.
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me (I wasn’t ready)
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me
Goodbye, but now it goes, (when I wake up)
I don’t need nobody tellin’ me the time, oooh uh uh oh
Who gave u permission to rearrange me
certainly not me
No way, no
Who told you that it was alright to love me
certainly, certainly not me
I was not looking for no love affair
and now you wanna fix me
I was not looking for no love affair
and now you want to mold me
Was not looking for no love affair
now you wanna kiss me
Was not looking for no love affair
and now you wanna control me
hold me
I know you’re trying to get creative with my love
and that’s real cute, boy,
you tried to get a little tricky
turned my back
and then you slipped me a mickey.
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me (ooh)
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me (ooh)
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me (ooh)
Certainly, certainly, certainly not me (ooh)
You know that that was mine,
When I wake up (when I wake up)
I don’t need nobody tellin’ me the time, no
The world is mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, uh, (when I wake up)
I don’t need no middle,
Rollin’ over,
Lookin’ after me.
No no,
No no,
No no,
No no,
No no,
No no,
No no no no no no no no no,
Oh no, oh no, oouuuhh,
I don’t need, I don’t need, no,
No no no no
No no no no no no no no no,oh
(And he slipped me a mickey) ooouuh
(And he slipped me a mickey) (You know I wasn’t ready)
(And he slipped me a mickey) (‘cause I admit baby)
(And he slipped me a mickey) (baby)
(And he slipped me a mickey) (oooh)
(And he slipped me a mickey) (oh no nono)
(And he slipped me a mickey) (yeah, and he slipped)
(And he slipped me a mickey) (and he slipped he slipped)
ooouuh, oh no, no no no no no no no no oh,
oouh oh no oh, heyiiih,
love affair, love affair, love love, it ain’t no love affair, ooh,
oohh ohh, ouuh oh,
aaauuh.